<p>@pentaligin: unfortunately, not all scientists look like that. if you go to grad school near a large hospital, i suggest finding yourself a hot nurse, lol.</p>
<p>@kryptonsa26:
“There are a couple excellent molecular & cell biology-oriented programs that I ended up not applying to simply because an overwhelming percentage of faculty in those programs are doing neuroscience-related research, which does not interest me at all.” –> I’ll second that</p>
<p>any developmental bio people here?</p>
<p>@ kryptonsa36
It is extremelly long, and very annoying. Everything you have to do to fill out applications and what universities require for you to be able to apply takes time away of your professional life, social life, and whatever you are used to do. Not to mention that you have to ask your advisors (or whatever) to write LORs, and, this is very time consuming (and people who write LORs usually do not have free time at all).
I did not understand the comment on med school, since this is a biosc. graduate forum… I am a doctor anyways, hahaha, animals doctor… 
So, I chose not to practice, but to perform research. And I guess this is everyone’s choice here.</p>
<p>I know it’s a pain - I just went through with it, too!</p>
<p>I’m just saying… if you think applying to graduate school has been annoying and difficult, well, imagine if you were applying to medical school instead. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I gotta go with Kryptonsa here, we got it EASY compared to the med school applicants.</p>
<p>Just got an invite for Weill Cornell IMP program by email today.</p>
<p>last year I had two friends from the same university with similar credentials: one applied to med schools was was wait-listed by three (one of these ended up accepting him late in the process) and was rejected by six others; the other applied to PhD programs and was accepted by 4 of 6.</p>
<p>worst part is that med applicants have to pay for traveling expenditures and are more likely to be rejected than accepted if given opportunity to interview.</p>
<p>Yeah, med apps way worse than grad apps, imo. Just even writing the statements! Why do you want to be a doctor - how do you stand out of like thousands of applications? Whereas for SOPs, I just wrote what I want to study (easy enough), what I did (even easier), why that program (also easy).</p>
<p>Does anybody have advice about conflicting interview weekends?</p>
<p>Situation:
Accepted interview invitation at one school for their interview weekend, only one but the indication was that they would accommodate me if I couldn’t make it. Turns out I just received another invite today, the same weekend, no secondary weekend or alternative indicated. I am really interested in both schools and worry it will reflect badly on me if I can’t make a set weekend.</p>
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<p>Oh, okay. I was just curious; I thought I’d missed a whole other section of programs at Einstein before I’d applied!</p>
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Personally, I’d just call both schools and see what the options are for alternate weekends. Graduate schools typically aren’t too concerned with yield, and they fully expect you to be interviewing at multiple other schools.</p>
<p>talking about ubiquity of neuroscience, just check out the research areas of HHMI investigators. A fair 80% of them are doing neuroscience related work.</p>
<p>So anyway, I heard that Yale BBS will be sending out invites after the holidays as well?</p>
<p>And by the way. for stanford biosciences, the adcoms haven’t met yet…will start after holidays</p>
<p>Columbia, integrated CMBS interview invite by email. File completed late, international.</p>
<p>I was wondering whether it was necessary to post your fall grade report for Yale BBS. They never required a transcript but have an optional form on their website that you need to email or mail to them. My grades just got posted, and I’m happy with them, but I already got an interview so I’m not sure if they’re even going to look at my fall grades. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>I am applying to the Genetics Program at Stony Brook University. Here are my stats:</p>
<p>Undergrad GPA: 3.5 (Yale)
Grad GPA: 3.6 (Stony Brook) *was previously in a different doctoral program but had to leave for personal (non-academic) reasons.
Two published articles, one from grad school one from undergrad.
GRE: 97th percentile Verbal, 83rd percentile Quant, 92nd percentile Analytical Writing
GRE Biology Subject Test: 97th percentile
Letters of recommendation from: previous doctoral advisor, another two professors in the department, and undergrad mentor that I published a paper with.</p>
<p>I am waiting back anxiously since this is the only program I am applying to because of family circumstances. I will keep you updated once I hear something new.</p>
<p>Sounds like Yale BBS has already sent out a few interview invites…is that the case?</p>
<p>KWhitman:
This is probably the best place to go to answer that question about status of invites/acceptances for any program:
[Grad</a> School Admissions Results for 2006–2009 • thegradcafe.com](<a href=“http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php]Grad”>Grad School Admissions Results for 2006–2024 • thegradcafe.com)</p>
<p>Also search the forum for your individual program by post (as opposed to topic, as info. is buried in this huge thread). Good luck!</p>
<p>I got the invite to Yale BBS already and I believe a bunch of others have already as well. </p>
<p>Cal2010- I would think that they would prompt you to send them maybe after the interview or something. I’m not too sure about that either.</p>
<p>^^ which track under BBS?</p>
<p>[Grad</a> School Admissions Results for 2006–2009 • thegradcafe.com](<a href=“Grad School Admissions Results for 2006–2024 • thegradcafe.com”>Grad School Admissions Results for 2006–2024 • thegradcafe.com)</p>
<p>Someone heard from MIT BCS?</p>